VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI
UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
FACULTY OF POST – GRADUATE STUDIES
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NGUYỄN THỊ QUỲNH ANH
USING DICTATION TO IMPROVE LISTENING SKILLS
OF GRADE 10 STUDENTS
AT A HIGH SCHOOL IN HA NAM PROVINCE
(Sử dụng chính tả để cải thiện kỹ năng nghe hiểu cho
học sinh lớp 10 tại một trường trung học ở Tỉnh Hà Nam)
M.A MINOR THESIS (Type I)
Field: English Teaching Methodology
Code: 8140231.01
Hanoi - 2019
VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI
UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
FACULTY OF POST – GRADUATE STUDIES
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NGUYỄN THỊ QUỲNH ANH
USING DICTATION TO IMPROVE LISTENING SKILLS
OF GRADE 10 STUDENTS
AT A HIGH SCHOOL IN HA NAM PROVINCE
(Sử dụng chính tả để cải thiện kỹ năng nghe hiểu cho
học sinh lớp 10 tại một trường trung học ở Tỉnh Hà Nam)
M.A MINOR THESIS (Type I)
Field: English teaching methodology
Code: 8140231.01
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hoàng Văn Vân
Hanoi – 2019
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DECLARATION
I certify that the minor thesis entitled “Using dictation to improve listening
skills of grade 10 students in a high school in Ha Nam province” and the work
presented in it is the result of my own work, and that the minor thesis or any part of
the same has not been submitted to any university and institution. I also accept all
the requirements of ULIS relating to the retention and use of M.A Graduation
Thesis deposited in the library.
Hanoi, October 2019
Author‟s signature
Nguyễn Thị Quỳnh Anh
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would first like to express my deep gratitude to my supervisor Prof. Dr. Hoàng
Văn Vân for his valuable guidance, encouragements, criticisms and correction
throughout my research. Without his help, this study would be far from finished. He
consistently allowed this paper to be my own work, but steered me in the right
direction whenever he thought I needed it.
I am greatly indebted to all my lecturers at Faculty of Post-graduate Studies
of University of Languages and International Studies – Vietnam National
University, Hanoi who have provided me an invaluable source of knowledge for my
completion of this thesis.
I would also like to thank fourty 10th grade students at a local school in Ha
Nam province. Without their passionate participation and input, the validation
survey could not have been successful.
I must express my very profound gratitude to my family and friends whose
unfailing support and continuous encouragement help me throughout my years of
study and the process of researching and writing this thesis. This accomplishment
would not have been possible without them.
Last but not least, I wish to thank my readers for their interest and comments
on the thesis.
Hanoi, October 2019
Author‟s signature
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ABSTRACT
How to improve English listening skill effectively is always a topic that has
attracted much attention from language teachers. Students of English find listening
lessons difficult because they do not have appropriate methods to get over the
difficulties. As a result, this research attempts to look at one method called dictation
to improve high school students‟ listening skills. This study is conducted to find
out: (1) a clear view of dictation, (2) how the method works on the students, and (3)
how much the student‟s listening skills are improved. The data were collected
through action research with 40 grade 10 students in a local high school in Ha Nam
province. All of the groups were pre-tested at the beginning of the study.
Throughout the learning process in class for 18 weeks, the teacher gave the students
dictation practice tasks. All students in the class were post-tested at the end of the
intervention. For the detailed outcome, the data was collected and analyzed
carefully. An analysis of survey questionnaires is done on the students to find out
their attitudes towards this technique. As the findings show, the research reveals
that dictation contributes positively to improving listening skills for students.
